"Trump's support will probably fade. Or at least, given his high unfavorable ratings, it will plateau, and other candidates will surpass him as the rest of the field consolidates."

-----Nate Silver, FiveThirtyEight, July 20, 2015

"The Donald Trump candidacy is almost over. Don't be fooled by Trump's double-digit lead in a new poll: He is not going to win . . . Donald Trump is not running a real campaign . . . Soon, the bolder members of the field will follow Rick Perry, Marco Rubio, and Jeb Bush in making harder and more decisive strokes against him. Unlike Trump, they'll use real oppo, tested and targeted messages - ads built not just to cut, but to kill. They'll break his operational tempo, get inside his OODA loop, and turn his circus into a crispy ruin. It's what real campaigns do."

"At the end of the day, [Trump] is not going to be the Republican nominee."

-----Sara Fagen, Republican strategist and former political director for President George W. Bush, NBC News' Meet the Press, July 26, 2015

"I think Trump is not going to win the nomination."

-----Ron Fournier, senior political columnist for National Journal, NBC News' Meet the Press, July 26, 2015

John Brabender, Republican political Consultant: "Donald Trump is not going to be the nominee. I'm telling you that right now. But . . . ."

Don Lemon, Host: "How do you say that?"

Brabender: "He's just not going to be. My experience of doing this for 30 years. I'm just telling you he's not going to be the nominee."

-----CNN Tonight, August 3, 2015

"Donald Trump is doing well now, but I rather suspect the air will come out of that balloon at some point in time. I don't know when, I don't know how, but it's very difficult to imagine him being the Republican nominee for president."

-----Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia, CNN's World Right Now with Hala Gorani, August 5, 2015

"Trump's campaign will fail by one means or another . . . . If you want absurd specificity, I recently estimated Trump's chance of becoming the GOP nominee at 2 percent."

-----Nate Silver, FiveThirtyEight, August 6, 2015

"Let me go on record saying this right now: Donald Trump will not be our next president. He won't even be the GOP nominee. And I know, I know: We've underestimated him before. But still."

-----Amber Phillips, The Washington Post, August 10, 2015

"Our emphatic prediction is simply that Trump will not win the nomination. It's not even clear that he's trying to do so."

-----Nate Silver, FiveThirtyEight, August 11, 2015

"Virtually all the political prognosticators are united on one point: Donald Trump's surge is fascinating, but of course he won't be the Republican nominee."

-----Howard Kurtz, host Fox News' Media Buzz, August 6, 2015

"Whomever is going to be the eventual nominee . . . it's not going to be Donald Trump."

-----Robert George, editorial board member of the New York Daily News, MSNBC's Up with Steve Kornacki, August 16, 2015

"I do think that Trump will hit a ceiling . . . So, at the end of the day, I don't believe that Trump will be the nominee.

""[It] won't happen, won't happen. I mean, Trump has . . . I think he's hit a ceiling of about 30 percent . . . We're at peak Trump. Of course, I said this about six weeks ago. . . . Maybe peak Trump will last for another, two, three weeks, but I don't think so . . . . I do not believe [Trump] can be the nominee."

-----William Kristol, editor of the Weekly Standard, ABC's This Week with George Stephanopoulus, September 6, 2015

"Last week's debate could mark the leveling off of Trump's rise and the beginning of his deflation."

"The entire commentariat is going to feel a little silly when Marco Rubio wins every Republican primary."

-----Ross Douthat, columnist for The New York Times, Twitter, September 25, 2015

“If you bother to read some of the serious analysis of Trump’s support, you realize that it’s a very fragile thing and highly unlikely to deliver what he needs in the crucial first phase of the primaries.”

Wednesday, January 18, 2017

The national and international staff of Legalienate, a blog more famous than the NY Times , Fox TV, SlimeFeed, Bogus Newz and ScumBook announced its boycott of the Trump inauguration.
Spokeperson Frank Scott said:

"in keeping with our long cherished and sacred policies and on a moral par with the U.S. Constitution, the Ten Commandments and our even more sacredly cherished Hypocritic Oath, as in all other inaugurations dating from George Washington, our dedicated staff members, born, unborn, zygote, fetus or whatever, will not attend in protest against political and media hacks and in order to get some free publicity like all the other nobodies, nothings, losers and pretenders who are claiming fame by not attending a public spectacle they were never invited to either."

Wednesday, January 11, 2017

America’s ruling powers have maintained control by utilizing
the divide and conquer strategy of identitarianism. Avoiding democracy by
keeping people in real or imagined minorities has worked well, but there are
times when that ruling force needs to unify people in order to keep its
dominance and in those circumstances what works best is the outside menace that
threatens “all of us ”. In the recent past it was an alleged international communist
conspiracy, centered in the Soviet Union. When that ended more than twenty
years ago, the terrorist menace presented itself as for the first time America
experienced a threat within its own borders as a result of murderous policies
acted out elsewhere. While that real fear has been fully exploited and is at
least based on a material rather than mentally created reality, the present endangered
status of our ruling oligarchy has brought about a new alleged menace for
public consumption, this time from a capitalist Russia and embodied in Vladimir
Putin.

An individual leader always plays an important role in the
demonology productions of our consciousness controllers, who may have suffered
a loss by killing Osama bin laden. The transformation of a Russian who played a
major role in bringing his country back from near economic disaster to a
position of global leadership into an alleged fiendish menace to all that
Americans hold dear has been a dangerous success, so far.

Supposed liberals, progressives, and some who call themselves
leftists have been swept up in a reactionary frenzy that makes past
conservative foaming-at-the-mouth anti communism seem almost benign by comparison.
Charges of Russian interference with an already corrupt electoral system entirely
dependent on funding by the richest people in America have been swallowed by
people who consider themselves more knowledgeable than those fed up with that
system, however confused they might be about what changing it actually means.
If Russia doesn’t listen in on official American communications as America listens
in on those of the entire world, it would not only be led by but also populated
by incompetents on a par with some of the think-from-the-armpits types in our
government. The USA has not only spied on but also meddled in foreign elections
whenever it deemed the outcomes not conducive to its dominant role in the
world. And American computerized communications are regularly spied upon by
some of its alleged allies, most especially Israel. The shocked reactions to
learning that others do what we do is in keeping with the psychosis that
rationalizes present forms of colonialism, mass murder of foreigners and the
destruction of nations deemed problematic to the supposed master race of self
chosen people cult. But when alleged critics of that cult calling themselves
not only liberal but also leftist become willing believers in its worst created
fantasies, America and its people are threatened as never before.

A lynch mob composed of supposedly progressive liberals is
no different from a lynch mob composed of supposedly reactionary conservatives.
Whether fueled by wine, cheese and the New York Times or pretzels, beer and Fox
TV, it is a lynch mob, and the nation is presently in danger of becoming a manipulated
mob of uninformed, misinformed, bigotry enacting lynch mobs engaging in
righteous psycho-neurotic behavior patterns that get closer to psychotic
violence every day.

The victory of Trump in the election triggered an increase
in the revived cold war behavior as a corrupt electoral system was suddenly
discovered to be unfair when someone who was not supposed to win actually did
win and bring on this new chapter of mental maladjustment bordering on physical
breakdown. It has brought to the surface long suppressed but very American hate
tendencies in the individual blame game that serves as cover for the social
crimes of capital.

The sordid celebrity gossip reporting that passes for
political analysis has reached depths to shock thoughtful populations here and
in other countries that may live in fear of what total breakdown could mean for
the rest of the world. Irrational bursts of brainlessness emanating from the
professional servants of power in our politics and media that used to be
occasional are becoming everyday reality. The newly elected president, who may
be the most open and least sneaky of the dimwitted breed in his unabashed Americanism
of supremacy, has set off explosions in the national oligarchs reflecting their
mortal fears of losing control. It has taken a billionaire, not a
revolutionary, to scare the hell out of the billionaires who own the nation. Go
figure? But the danger of a lone nutcase losing it while in possession of a
gun, knife or bomb is multiplied hundreds of millions of times when the nut is
a class in possession of enough money and weaponry to destroy much of the
civilized world. When a rich, egotistical, arrogant and often ignorant
loudmouth begins to sound like the most rational voice in a debate, those being
made to pay for the argument need to take action for sanity before the nut-cult
ends all possibility of not only thought or logic but life itself.

Headlines in publications supposedly dispensing news sell
claims about Trump and Putin that embarrass gossip hustlers. Enormous attention
is given a slur by a professional actress that allegedly brings tears to the
eyes of well meaning if ignorantly gullible listeners, claiming that Trump
trashed a physically disabled person .Simple investigation would find that he
used the very same movements to trash political opponents whose only disability
might be mental and not visible to the naked eye or empty mind. The need of our
oligarchs to make this unpredictable individual weak if not feeble even before
he takes office has led to speculation of his being impeached or possibly
murdered, all of which finds previously rational types clucking in agreement
while accepting claims of his being the source of all the ugliness at the core
of national policies which date back not just to previous administrations but to
the founding of the nation. All of this individual bashing neglects the
enormous social power and its murderous affect on the world, especially the middle
east, being acted out every day regardless of which party clown, oaf, servant
or competent professional serves as CEO of our corporate warfare state of
social welfare for the rich and individual sink or swim for the rest.

An obsolete model based on the acquisition of private
profits in a market as the primary motivation of life itself has been
criticized almost since the moment it became evident to thinkers who could see beyond
the end of their noses. We are dealing with a system in danger of not only further
corrupting life but possibly ending it for humanity if it is allowed to continue
under control of minority oligarchs and their servants. Concentration on individuals
exclusive of the social forces they serve is long past tolerable for humanity
and only profitable for a tiny population even if ultimately damaging even for
them. But nonsense about one or another president or ceo that allows the
corporation to continue its business is worse than criminally ignorant. It is
racially stupid, as in threatening all of humanity and not just the relative
handful buying into the master race of self chosen leaders that passes for
western capital’s american centered domination of the globe. Different
political leaders may be nice, wonderful, rotten, diseased or whatever else,
but the system ruining the planet is the problem, not some individual’s talent,
personality or lack of both. It is capitalism that is obsolete and we need a
new social model . Continued tolerance of the malevolent ignorance being forced
on us by consciousness control is a critical part of our problem and we need to
stop it, before it makes us, obsolete.